I was in a hotel Germany over the summer and they brought me an IV menu at the pool. Something like €150 for a vitamin C drip. Seems grotesque.

Why are Reform getting such a free ride on their links with Russia and Trump and the threat this poses to British and wider security? If this was Polanski the press would smashing him to pieces.

Hmm... The pro-Putin anti-Europe identity is baked into Reform, and much of the new Right movement across Europe and beyond.. it is not simply that they admire his strength and cultural conservatism, but that they share his - and Trump's - goal of a weakened Europe. And Russian funded some of them.

If I was them I would have been hammering points like this every day for months. I can only think they are afraid of upsetting Trump some how but still....

Just make a big thing of it! Throw in 'should we have a fit & proper to own social media test' for the hell of it! If you're being cynical this is is how to make "Reform are a security risk" stick in people's minds, if being noble this is all part of European resilience to Russian/Chinese threat

Just chuckling about that time I once joined the overseas Friends of the Conservative Party group giving my name as V. Putin and my address in the Kremlin. For everyone finding out that locations on X may not be what they seem...

Yeah, mine are great.

I share the concerns over how the concept could be used (TBF I am also concerned how we already use concepts like human-managed landscape, so it may not be so different)... intellectually though I would have thought that almost all current ecosystems would meet the criteria for novel these days.